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Needless to say, Ivy Bridge is here to stay — at least until Intel takes us on a different road. That being said, Acer just announced a business-oriented machine of its own with Intel’s latest chips onboard. Part of the outfit’s TravelMate lineup, this 14-inch (1366 x 768) P243 rocks some pretty standard features, including a Core i5, Ivy Bridge processor, an HD webcam for all those Skype calls and a USB 3.0 port.
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Acer outs Ivy Bridge-packing TravelMate P243 notebook series in the UK
In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve gotten multiple opportunities to talk shop with Samsung executives over the past couple days. After we finished grilling the R&D team on higher-res displays, we sat down with the designers behind the latest Series 9 Ultrabooks, and they surprised us by whipping out a late-stage prototype — aka, a glimpse at what these laptops might have been, were it not for a little extra hemming and hawing and at least one executive veto. You know what they say: a picture tells a thousand words, and we’ve got quite a few embedded below for your viewing pleasure.
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Visualized: What the new Samsung Series 9 could have looked like
As much as we’re familiar with wireless power , we know developing a truly contact-free form of charging has a whole raft of extra challenges, such as getting into the sweet spot for power delivery and the potential traffic jam caused by throwing another device into the mix. Sony thinks it has these problems licked through a newly-published patent application. Its method uses location-finding to steer users until they’re close enough for the wireless power source to reliably do its job
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Sony applies for wireless power patent, wants to daisy-chain your energy
To pair nicely alongside that beastly Let’s Note B11 we showed you last week, Panasonic’s now also selling its J10 netbook series in Japan. Aesthetically speaking, the new Let’s Note J10 isn’t much different than its predecessor, the J9 , though it has changed a bit (as expected) in the specs department.
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Panasonic’s Let’s Note J10 netbook promises over 12 hours of battery life, available now in Japan
Okay, it may not be one of the sleekest laptops we’ve seen of late, but Panasonic’s B11 is packing a hefty amount of horsepower underneath that beastly shell to make you forget its looks. This Let’s Note B11 is a worthy refresh to the B10 series we showed you a while back — although aesthetically it didn’t change much. Inside the Japan-bound B11 is Intel’s latest Core i7-3615QM chip, which you can pair alongside a 750GB hard drive or a 256GB SSD.
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Panasonic outs Let’s Note B11 laptop series in Japan, Ivy Bridge in tow
Sure, you may need to shop around to find a replacement for that 11-inch number Dell pulled off the shelves , but that doesn’t mean you need to miss out on a free Ivy Bridge upgrade . Origin PC tells us that it’s offering the very same silicon swap as Dell to folks who pulled the trigger on any of its laptop and desktop PCs before Intel’s big launch . If your order hasn’t shipped yet, you’re looking at an upgrade.
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Origin PC upgrading pre-Ivy Bridge orders with new silicon, asking nothing in return
We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so.
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Ask Engadget: best money no object laptop?
We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so.
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Ask Engadget: best ‘money is no object’ laptop?
A few days ago, HP accidentally listed the unannounced Envy 4 and 6 on a support page within its American website.
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HP Envy 4 shows up for pre-order on HP’s China site, priced as low as 5,499 yuan
They may not be the thinnest or most powerful machines Sony’s ever introduced, but the new trio hopes to catch a few hearts here and there.
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Sony unveils E Series 14P laptops with gesture-based controls
Super Diet Genius plans your meals based on super-healthy superfoods. (Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET) Diet apps are a dime a dozen
With E3 2012 right around the corner, Reggie and co. want to make sure your oft-distracted eyes catch every drip drop of the impending Wii U news flood.
Sufficiently enamored with Samsung’s Galaxy S III that you’ve got to have one in the US before anyone else, and you don’t want it sullied by carrier customizations in the trip across the Pacific?
We can’t be certain as to how many units of the HTC EVO 4G LTE have made it out of customs thus far, but it appears the number is high enough for Sprint to officially set a date for shipping the device out to those who pre-ordered it online. A Sprint representative reached out to us to share the company’s statement from this afternoon that customers should expect to receive their valuable treasure “on or around” May 24th. We’re not in love with the “around” terminology, but this could simply be due to a high amount of demand.
The digital gTar never needs tuning. (Credit: Incident Technologies) At first glance, a digital guitar with the brains of a super-powered smartphone and illuminated fretboard seems like a product that could change everything about guitar instrumentation
(Credit: Pentax) I have to admit: the $900 Pentax K-30 dSLR sounds like a pretty promising replacement for the K-r. Rugged on the outside with the potential for the same excellent photo quality as the K-01 mirrorless ILC, claimed faster autofocus performance than the already fast K-5, and a 100 percent coverage viewfinder that you usually only see in more expensive models all add up to a possibly great start to the Pentax-Ricoh era. Though it’s not “durable” in the same sense as bodies like the Nikon D4 or Canon EOS-1D X , with parts designed to withstand heavy photographic abuse, the K-30 offers weather-and-dust resistance, with claims of usability down to 14 degrees (most cameras only guarantee down to 32 degrees); that said, Pentax makes no claims about battery life at those temperatures.
House After eight seasons, the run of Gregory House MD comes to an end on Fox tonight with a double episode. While we’ll miss Hugh Laurie fumbling around on our American TV screens every week, it definitely felt like time for the series to come to an end. We’ll see how Wilson’s cancer diagnosis wraps up and if any other old characters stop by after Thirteen popped up last week, although we will avoid throwing back a Vicodin just for old time’s sake.
You wait for one Thunderbolt-compatible motherboard and then two decide to arrive on the same day.
Never one to focus exclusively on the very latest hardware , a new mod has brought an 6502 microprocessor to a Minecraft world near you. The system is made from three separate cubes, representing the CPU, monitor and disk drive, respectively, all connected by ribbon cables. Part of pre-release 5 of the RedPower 2 mod, programmer Eloraam has also thrown in pumps and solar panels to keep crafters busy — you’re no longer limited to light switches
Come summer, the 4G LTE-ready Motorola Droid Maxx will also be global-ready. Wondering when you can take your Verizon Android phone overseas without hassle?
